to explicitly condemn white supremacy and then launches new xenophobic attacks on a sitting u.s. congresswoman of color just hours later. at a minnesota rally, he took aim at ilhan omar who fled somalia at the age of 8 and who has been a citizen of this country. >> what -- what is going on with omar? i've been reading these reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. let's get with it. let's get with it. how the hell -- then she tells us how to run our country? how the hell did minnesota elect her? what the hell is wrong with you people? >> what you didn't see there largely is the very diverse makeup especially of the twin cities in the district that ilhan omar represents and it's notable that this comes just as the trump administration informs

congress that it intends to accept only 15,000 refugees this fiscal year. that's a historic low for the country. they are calling it a move to quote prioritize the safety and well-being of americans. also questions this morning about the message the president is sending by seemingly defying his own covid task force and planning rallies. two of them this weekend in wisconsin which is seeing a record number of deaths and hospitalizations. right now, they have the third highest rate in minnesota and the task force is calling for increased social distancing in the state. that's not stopping the president. we'll get there in a moment. let's begin with the rally in minnesota and our john harwood is outside at the white house. good morning, john. >> what good morning, poppy. you know that open appeal that we heard from trump last night, it was so striking because it followed his remarks at the

debate on tuesday night when he refused to condemn white supremacy. in the white house driveway, he tried to back away a little bit but it still was not an explicit and emphatic condemnation of white supremacists. he didn't know who the proud boys were and that followed a backlash in a mild way from republicans on the hill who are made uncomfortable by the president's remarks at the debate and they had this to say to reporters yesterday. >> i think he should correct it. if he doesn't correct it i guess he didn't misspeak. >> i want to associate myself with the comments of tim scott. he said it was unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists so i do so in the strongest way. >> obviously they didn't condemn president trump for his remarks, they backed into it that way. there's a reason for that. because the republican party just like president trump is

locked into a strategy and has been for decades of almost exclusively appealing to white voters. republicans have not gotten more than 20% and he makes it embarrassing for them because he's not subtle and more explicit in what he does. but this is a road that the republican party has been driving down for a long time. to try to squeeze as many votes as possible as they can from whites, even though whites are a declining share of the american population. and that's the path that they're following all the way through to the election. it does not look like it's paying off for the president, it's turning off a lot of the college educated white voters but that's the path that the republican party is on. >> john harwood, good to note that. thanks very much. joining us now right is a white house reporter toluse olorunnipa and anita kumar. thanks to both of you.

the contrast between the president's milquetoast disassociation on the white supremacies yesterday on the white house lawn and then a repeated attack and one he's done before against a sitting woman of color on congress, ilhan omar. the crowd chanting lock her up. that contrast there accidental or deliberate? >> it's very deliberate, it's clear that the president knows how to condemn certain things. he knows how to disassociate himself from very certain things and he knows how to express displeasure with certain things and racism is one of those things that he wants to vocally and unequivocally condemn. he always equivocates and draws an equivalency between leftists and antifa and any other group that needs to be condemned. there's not an explicit condemnation that allows a lot

of people wanting for more and the president has made it very clear where he stands on the issues and his attacks on ilhan omar, allowing the crowd to whip itself up into chants, it's clear that he wants to run a race about us versus them and john put it very clearly he's running a race on white grievance and trying to juice up his base which is overwhelmingly white by focusing on the divisive issues rather than building a coalition that is a broad swath of the country. >> the assessment by mitch mcconnell that, quote, i don't know if any of my colleagueses who -- i don't know of any of my colleagues who will have problems as a result of that. anita, do we know or is this becoming much more of a gamble for senate republicans? >> well, i think it's a gamble.

the mere fact that senator connell made a statement, he didn't say president trump's name but made a statement about white supremacy is indication enough. a lot of times he'll ignore what president trump says and not go there. but this time, he felt that he needed to go out there and say that. so did senator scott as we just showed. so did others. you know, i know people will say, democrats will say, look, republicans didn't really condemn president trump and that may be true. they're walking this very fine line. he's the head of the republican party, but what he said is not helping them. and when you talk to republicans that are close to people that are working to elect senators, house members, state legislators, governors all across the country, they say these statements don't help. they want to expand the party. they have been trying to do that to, you know, people of color for, you know, years and years now. and every time the president says something like that it

really hurts that effort for them. so they may not be saying it quite out loud, but they are saying it privately and they're trying to figure out what to. >> you know this well given how many years you have covered washington. with mitch mcconnell, the only thing more important to him perhaps than not stepping out of line with the president, who remains popular in the republican party, is maintaining his majority in the senate here. do those comments about white supremacy from mitch mcconnell do they indicate to you that he sees danger for swing state or vulnerable republicans from this line of attack from the president in -- on november 3rd? >> yes. mitch mcconnell realizes that his majority is at stake and he is willing to somewhat disassociate himself from the president and try to make that fine balance that anita was talking about, try to save some of his vulnerable lawmakers. a number of different states from maine to north carolina to iowa to even georgia where the

president's low numbers especially when it comes to moderate voters and suburban voters especially in light of the president's long-running divisive commentary on race has made it harder for republicans to win in places where frankly they should be winning based on past history and demographics, but mitch mcconnell realizes in order to save his majority he needs to not have the discussion a month before the election about white supremacy. he wants to be talking about the economy and the president is making it very hard for that message to pull through. >> anita, briefly listen to the other comment that the president made last night in minnesota. >> another massive issue for minnesotans, the election of joe biden's plan to inundate your state with a historic flood of refugees. biden will turn minnesota into a refugee camp and he said that.

>> just not true. but it's notable that it comes, ani anita, on the same day that the trump administration is cutting the amount of refugees it will take in this fiscal year to a historic low. to 15,000. politically, what does that do for the president? is it just pandering to the base he already has? >> yeah. i mean, i think you're right. but this is sort -- this is sort of what the president has done, you know this whole time while the trump campaign has really tried these last couple of years to appeal to other parts of the country. not just president trump's base. they really have -- you know, they have the different coaliti coalitions, they're working for women and for people of color. what the administration does, the white house, they undercut that message. both with what the president's statements as you heard, and they undercut it with policy. you can see this over and over again. where it always seems to come back to energizing the

president's base, where it really doesn't go along with what the campaign is trying to do. i think you're exactly right. here we are a few weeks out from the election. people are actually voting so the election has started. and he's still kind of going back to what he has done for the last four years. so will any of those efforts that his aides are making on the campaign side work? we have to wait and see what the results are, but it does look what the white house and the president is doing is different. >> it's been consistent for years, we should know that. thanks to both of you. additional structure, that's what the presidential commission on debates hopes to bring to future debates. you might call it the understatement of the century. they're looking at changing the format after what we saw on tuesday. >> our jessica dean is covering it. what kind of changes?

>> reporter: that's the big question, what kind of changes will be put in place by the commission and just how enforceable and realistic are they going to be? we saw how president trump just blew through any pleas from chris wallace to stop talking, to stop interrupting when it wasn't his turn. so the commission is now having these discussions, they say they want to ensure more orderly discussion in the next two debates. now, keep in mind the next debate is actually a town hall format in miami, florida, in two weeks. so it will be interesting to see how that would play into it. but again, the commission making the announcement yesterday. here's what vice president joe biden said about it on the trail. >> i just hope there's a way in which the debate commission can control the ability of us to answer the question without interruption. >> reporter: he went on to say yesterday that he considered

president trump's performance a national embarrassment. as for the trump campaign they're reacting and saying they don't like them, they don't want to change rules in the middle of the game. but again, poppy and jim, it will be interesting to see what the commission decides to do moving forward. it certainly has to have more structure than it did this week. that just -- we all watched it, it certainly was not -- people were not able to hear anything or much of anything. >> you're right. jess, thanks for the reporting. >> yeah, people want to hear those answers. still to come, how will what the president says affect the broader gop? is there concern within his own party about the upcoming election? i'm going to speak to a republican senator, number three republican in the senate, about the president's comments and the upcoming race and number of issues. also as wisconsin sees a record number of hospitalizations from the covid-19 infection, the president is planning two

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welcome back. we have been watching the map closely and the number of states ticking up, at least 27 states now are reporting an increase of new coronavirus infections. you can see the red and the orange states on the map. new york has several clusters of outbreaks that have created hot spot zip codes and the positivity rate is about five times higher than the entire state. after this new york had seemed to have this under control. wisconsin is also seeing a surge. yet, the president is still planning on two big rallies there this weekend. cnn correspondent omar jimenez is in green bay, wisconsin.

we have seen a lot of the rallies, recently, at an airport, outdoors, but not socially distanced and not many people wearing masks. >> reporter: that's right. we're coming off the single deadliest day we have seen for coronavirus in the state of wisconsin since this pandemic began. and wednesday, we saw a record number of hospitalizations just days after the state set a record for single-day cases here. now, when you look back to mid june, we had actually seen a steady increase in cases and starting from early september to now, we saw an absolute spike. specifically the white house coronavirus task force citing wisconsin as one of the highest rates of spread in the country and during this high -- during this intense period of viral surge, large numbers of individuals caused exponential growth in infections. although the young adults are

the most affected groups, spread to the other groups is inevitable. social distancing is recommended. and four factors is one of the reasons. covid fatigue, disregard for health guidelines, and an inability to enforce the statewide mask mandate that's currently in place. jim? >> we're seeing the fatigue, but the threat is still there. omar jimenez, thank you. well, pharmaceutical company moderna said if their coronavirus vaccine is proven safe and effective it could be available to the general population by late march or early april. with me now is former acting director of the cdc, dr. besser. thank you for so much for being here. >> good to be here, poppy. >> we can pick up on moderna

because they're saying they can file for an emergency use authorization for those deemed high need. children, there's been no u.s. tests scenarios yet on kids with these vaccines. >> that's right. when i whenned to the statement from the head of moderna the key word is if. they near the midst of the big trials to see if their vaccine is safe and effective and we don't know the answer to that and there are a lot of advantages for different diseases that have gone into these trials and have not been found to be safe and effective. i would hold judgment on the products until the results are in. what i'm worried about, poppy, all of this belief is that there would be a vaccine and that it's coming soon. when you see what's going on in wisconsin, i think part of that is this sense that we don't need to wear masks, the vaccine is about to ride in and save the

day. and even if there is a vaccine -- that's that if word, the head of moderna says it won't be widely distributed until the middle of next year and your question about children is spot on. none of the vaccines will be licensed in children, the studies haven't been done. there's something we'll follow after the point there's a safe and effective vaccine for adults. >> i didn't know that until a week ago until one of your peers are on. i thought my kids will get it when i get it. let's talk about wisconsin. so record hospitalizations there. record deaths there yesterday from covid. the third highest rate in the country. the health director there says they are a state in crisis and yet, the president is going to hold two rallies outdoors this weekend in two cities that his own task force says are red zones. i'm not going to you to opine on whether there's good judgment there or the politics of it, but i do want your assessment of the

public health impact of that and what you think it will be. >> when you have a state in crisis, or a city or a town that you're seeing increases in cases, what you want to see there is doubling down on the measures of testing and tracking and isolation and quarantine. you want to see all of your political leaders on board, wearing masks, modeling the behavior you want everyone to see. if you have a significant proportion of the population who is, again, not wearing masks because of fatigue or not wearing masks because they're believing a political narrative there's nothing to worry about, you'll continue to see a rise in cases. while young people may do relatively well with this, the disease doesn't say, you know, contained to young people. it's spread to others and others who are at higher risk. >> okay, quick yes or no here before we move on. can you get and/or spread coronavirus at an outdoor rally? >> yes.

>> okay, well the white house is saying you're outdoors. what about the masks, the white house is not mandating masks. what would a mask mandate at an outdoor rally mean? >> you can't put a figure on what the benefit is but each of the measures, social distancing, hand washing, being outdoors rather than indoors all of those contribute to prevention and each step is really important. if you're crowded, you know, shoulder to shoulder outdoors and standing there for hours there is risk involved there. if you're six feet apart, wearing, a mask, the risk goes way, way down. those are ways to exercise your political freedoms but without those steps you're really putting the people at the rally and others in the community at significant risk. >> finally the op-ed in "the washington post" from seven fda commissioners saying that the trump administration is undermining the credibility of the fda, this is the line that struck me. they said the perception of

political influence matters. not just political influence matters, but the perception of political influence matters. what can be done now when the perception is already out there? >> yeah, i mean, this is an issue for fda. it's an issue for cdc where there's enough episodes of true political influence that any of the other processes are going to be tainted. so what you need to see is a message from the top saying that we are going to keep hands off cdc and fda. we're going to let them go through the normal process. there will be the external review committees of experts that will weigh in on this and that we'll only move forward with the vaccine after fda or cdc make their judgments. >> dr. besser, always good to have you. thank you for the time this morning. >> thank you, poppy. well, as congress still tries to iron out a new stimulus deal following months of negotiations one major industry has essentially run out of time. two of the biggest airlines set to lay off employees.

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well, we received this news this morning. another 837,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week. and later today, speaker pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin are meeting again to try to cut a deal on another round of stimulus. a vote is expected in the house. you know, poppy, those numbers seem sort of old news at this point, but that 800,000 it's more than any single week than during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. this is people with families. >> you're so right. you know how i feel about this, that congress has not done its job to not get something together here.

manu raju is on capitol hill. are they going to reach a deal? >> reporter: it's a major task force because the two sides, well, they're closer together there are a lot of dynamics they need to maneuver in order to get something through. on one, the price tag. they are moving closer between what speaker pelosi is calling for $2.2 trillion and what treasury secretary mnuchin said that the white house is open to. the white house has moved up after the president has indicated he wants to spend more money. around the 1.5, $1.6 trillion range and senate republicans are not on the same page. senate republicans pushed for $500 billion plan that the democrats bought in early september. and senate republican whip john thune told me yesterday that the higher you go in the dollar amount, the more republican support you'll lose. there's still a lot of sticking points, how much they want to spend for schools. $600 a week in jobless benefits,

are those extended. will they provide more money for election funding that the speaker has been pushing for. not to mention state and local government aid, the democrats are pushing for $400 billion or so of that. the white house didn't want to spend any money on that. so these discussions will continue. there's a little bit more optimism that the two sides can come together now they're actually talking after weeks of not having any negotiations and they're in the same general universe as a price tag between the administration and the speaker. but, guys, watch the democrats today. they may push their own bill $2.2 trillion just to push their own bill along party lines. the republicans won't go for that. they do that, that's a sign that talks are not going in the favorable direction. >> well, always good to be in the same universe when you're trying to get something done for the american people. we're glad they reached that. thank you very much. today looks like it will be the worst day of job losses in

the history of aviation. more than 50,000 u.s. airline workers look like they'll be out of a job today after congress has failed to extend the paycheck support program. >> yeah, something we didn't even see in the wake of 9/11. of that 50,000 american and united airlines cutting a combined 32,000 jobs, pete muntean has been covering this. you heard me with the american ceo yesterday. he held out some hope in there was some explicit progress on the hill they might be able to delay this. didn't see that, so it's happening today. >> reporter: there's a bit of a glimmer of hope as you mentioned, jim. but the reality is really setting in for the tens of millions of employees who lobbied along with the unions and the airlines on congress, all summer for another $25 billion to avoid this october 1st furlough cliff by another six months. but what's so interesting now is that airlines are telling employees that if congress gets its act together within the next few days it could reverse the

furloughs and bring people back from the unemployment line. here are the new numbers from airlines overnight. american said it's furloughing 19,000 people effective today. united airlines, 13,342. when you add those numbers together, along with other smaller and regional airlines, 50,000 people are being furloughed industrywide effective today. they are pilots, they are mechanics, they are gate agents, they are flight attendants like angela frid. she's out of newark. she was hired only two years ago, but the most junior flight attendant at united airlines was hired in 1999. here's what angela said. >> it's all about to be taken away. i don't know if i'll be able to find a new job soon with the job market we're working with. i'm going to be losing my health care. >> reporter: here is the new statement that united airlines

sent through the employees late last night. giving them a tiny bit of hope that this could change in the instant. in a continuing effort to give the federal government every opportunity to aclear to the le administration, congress and our union partner wes can reverse the furlough process if the c.a.r.e.s. act is extended within the next few days. we will see if that hope turns into false hope, but you know, it's really hard to wrap your head around the totality of the furloughs that are happening today when you think about the numbers just at american airlines. it's enough time to fill the capital one arena here in washington, d.c. it could be the worse single day of job losses in the entire industry of aviation. >> these are people you meet on the airplanes, they're the people who welcome you on board and people who faced a fair amount of risk, flying in the midst of a pandemic. pete muntean, thanks very much. the other story, the

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terms white supremacists on the debate stage has drawn criticism from the republicans and even from mitch mcconnell, who called it unacceptable. senator tim scott says he believes president trump misspoke and should correct it. well, i'm joined by john

barrasso from capitol hill. he's the number three senator in the gop. senator, thanks so much for joining the broadcast again. >> great to be with you, jim, thank you. >> trump is the leader of your party. you have endorsed him to be re-elected. you know the perilous moment in terms of race relations. i just wonder must the president say in no uncertain terms these groups aren't right. i explicitly call them out and condemn them. should we hear those words from the president? >> i think we should hear them from the president and from every american. i certainly condemn what we have been seeing in terms of white supremacy, racism and anti-semitism and i stand with senator mcconnell and tim scott and the comments they have made. >> good for you. i want to move on now to the election, because we're a month out from the election. the director of the fbi, christopher wray, of course appointed by this president, he

testified under oath there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. that the fbi -- you know, he's the top law enforcement official in the country he says he sees no evidence. you have seen the president's claims every day that this is going to be a fraudulent vote. oftentimes and even on the debate stage citing things that aren't factually true. i want to ask you, who do you believe on the integrity of these upcoming elections and the prevalence of fraud. do you believe the fbi director or believe the president? >> well, i'm not going to a choice, but i believe the american people want a fair election. i know that it's a state by state process. i'm very happy with the way things are done in wyoming. we have many people vote by mail-in ballots as well as those who vote early and vote in person, but i will tell you in other states there are some concerns as laws are being changed, adjusted and courts are ruling. you want to make sure that people vote, that the ballots come in on time and those votes

are all counted and you can get concerned about some states where we already hear of ballots being found that have been discarded. so there is some concern, but i think widespread fraud, i have not seen evidence of that at all at this point. >> do you worry then when the sitting president repeats claims of widespread fraud? by the way, he doesn't say there are a few ballots here and there. he says this will not be a free and fair election to his many millions of followers and to people at his rallies, et cetera. what threat does that pose to the threat? because you'll have people in the country who don't accept the results of this election potentially. >> well, i believe it will be a fair and free election and i would encourage everyone to vote and do it early, do it on time. do it on election day, which ever is the best way for you to vote, i would say vote. >> okay. you know, last night, i'm not sure if you saw this, but we

watched as the president was at a rally in minneapolis and he took aim, in the midst of waiting for him to say, as you have said there, we will not stand for white supremacy or xenophobia, but the president attacked a sitting member of congress, ilhan omar and who happens to be a woman of color. what's your reaction when you see that? >> when i didn't see that, but there's no reason -- the kind of attacks and insults and the things that we saw in the debate the other night i thought were discouraging. you want to be able to have civil discourse, talk about the future direction of the country. where we need to go in terms of getting the pandemic behind us, in terms of getting the economy moving forward. and when we're talking about other things, we're being distracted from what i think most people that i talk to and

hear from in wyoming want to hear more about. >> to your credit, you're a doctor. you have been very explicit on this air about steps that people need to take to protect themselves and others. wear a mask, for instance. you haven't hemmed and hawed, you said, wear a mask, it makes sense. the president is holding more of the rallies. i mean, they're outdoors but they have people packed together, they're not socially distancing, most are not wearing masks. as a doctor, would you advise your patients to go to one of those rallies and not take one of those precautions? >> well, you want to take precautions and outdoors is certainly a lot safer, but you're right. i have my mask here right with me. i have it with me at all times. people in wyoming, you go to the grocery store, people have masks on. even though when you're out and about you don't necessarily need it if you're spread out from other people. we know what works in terms of lowering the risk of coronavirus. it's social distancing and it's proper hygiene and i'd continue as a doctor to recommend that

until we get the vaccine and a broad distribution of the vaccine and that's the way we get this completely behind us. >> thank you for being explicit. then is it a mistake for the president to hold the rallies without the explicit statement you made here? >> it's advisable for people to follow the advice and i would recommend to take common sense precauti precautions that work. >> you're aware of the stimulus plan and it's getting closer $2.2 trillion from the democrats, 1.5 from steve mnuchin that's within the same galaxy where the differences were further apart. would you be willing to go higher for that to vote for something below $2 trillion to get help to worker, particularly on a day when you have tens of thousands of airline workers who have now lost their jobs?

>> well, there are people that still need help and out of work and you want to make sure there's paycheck protection money for them and that our kids can get back to school so they don't fall further behind and make sure there's money for testing and the vaccine. so the question is not just the cost but also the content of the legislation. the list continues to include many things, jim, that are unrelated to coronavirus. when i look at the -- what i have seen come out and i think people are working together in good faith. we need to eliminate all of the things from the bill that have to do with, you know, tax breaks for millionaires in california and new york. and some of the things that you talk -- they mentioned jobs a lot less time in the bill than may mentioned cannabis and banking for those dealing in the marijuana trade. there are things that need to get out of that. if we can stay focused on kids back to school, people back to work and the disease, i think we can get to a solution. >> all right. well, hopeful words that maybe

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cruiser outside of a transit center. >> we have found our suspect. >> reporter: now the sheriffs department says it nabbed the suspect, 36-year-old deonte lee murray after connecting the dots to a crime on september 1st. >> murray was arrested two weeks ago and charged in connection with the carjacking of a man driving a mercedes-benz in compton, and he was charged with also shooting the driver of that mercedes. >> reporter: that car would turn out to be key. on september 12th the deputies were ambushed. the female deputy going to great lengths to save her partner's life. during their investigation officials identified the vehicle and surveillance video from around the scene. >> the case of the carjacking was identified. at suspect was subsequently identified and an arrest warrant was obtained for him. >> reporter: then, it on september 15th lefd deputies found the suspect and attempted to stop him. >> reporter: the suspect fled in a 2006 toyota solara which major

crimes detectives pursued. during that pursuit, the suspect threw a pistol from his car. that pistol was recovered and held as evidence. >> reporter: after a more than ten-hour manhunt, officials say the suspect was finally arrested. the black mercedes was also located. while this was ongoing, however, law enforcement was saying the suspect had nothing to do with the ambush. sheriff alex villanueva on cnn's erin burnett "out front." >> the is this connected to the man hunt for the government? >> that's a separate carjacking suspect. >> reporter: through testing detectives determined the pistol was used in the ambush and also connected to the suspect. >> when i said the gun matched, both blistically and forensically, that was days it later, days after his arrest. it would have been irresponsible for us to put his name in the papers as being the guy we're looking at because that's irrefutable. >> reporter: on top of the charges related to the carjacking, murray is now also charged with two felony counts

of pre-meditated attempted murder of a police officer. if convicted are, he could face life in prison. jim and poppy, just to let you know that this suspect did make his first court appearance in this case yesterday. he pled not guilty. his bail is set at more than $6.1 million. it's also worth noting that those two deputies, according to the sheriff in his update, he says that they are both home, recovering and that he does expect that they will return to work once they heal which is completely amazing when you take a look at that surveillance video and look how closely they were shot in that car. it's just amazing. >> he shot towards their heads. remarkable recovery and quick work by the police there. stephanie elam, thanks very much. well, ahead, a devastating day for the airline industry. thousands of jobs cut. delta's ceo is with us ahead. ♪ when disaster strikes to one,

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a very good thursday morning to you. it is almost the end of the week. i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow. we're glad you're here. the president last night you be leashing new xenophobic attack against a sitting u.s. congresswoman of color. this is one day after he failed to explicitly condemn white supremacists. listen to this from a rally in minnesota last night. >> what is going on with omar? i've been reading these reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. >> lock her up! lock her up! lock her up. >> let's get with it. then she tells us how to run our country? can you believe it? how the hell did minnesota elect